The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
Quotations
Music
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
-Jimi Hendrix
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out... It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part.
-Nick Hornby
Music, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
One good thing about music is, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
-Bob Marley
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
-Stevie Wonder
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
